hey hey! check out this fabulous issue! including a breathless little runaway story from me ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Issue 8 is LIVE! Featuring work by @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, @mooninabucket.bsky.social, @demisty.bsky.social, and so many more! Plus an interview with @sfeycreates.bsky.social! theaspbulletin.com

Heading to AWP? Join us Wednesday night in an on/offsite reading in the convention center hotel! Featuring @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @aureleo.bsky.social, @hananahzaheer.bsky.social, @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, and more!

“A girl like that could do it in her sleep:
that look, immortalized in that romance, the sculptor, carving up some pale ideal and how he tried to make it love him back. Miss Monroe’s blank and tired.” Jennifer Keith | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/selfie-jenni...

“I am flesh and bone. fiber and liquids.
a mind. I understand people see me
like bodiless heads in circus sideshows
surrounded by hard, distorting glass.” @mehpoeting.bsky.social | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/invisible-ma...

“Throughout that long lonely decade, wasn't l a fraying cord, shorting out every electric outlet, burn marks charring each wall? Didn't I yearn for someone to discover I'm here, here —” Katherine Gekker | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/abandon-kath...

Not sure how many people will see this? But here's my list of 2023 pubs. It's short! But that's okay, I edited an anthology and finished my thesis! (Yay!) To start: ALREADY GONE from @alansquirepub.bsky.social. I'm so proud of this book! alansquirepublishing.com/bookstore/al...

Writer friends! I'm fiction editor at The ASP Bulletin from @alansquirepub.bsky.social and we're accepting submissions through Christmas! Submit here: theaspbulletin.com/submissions/

"this is not the moment i have been waiting for - hades is a mother's hospital waiting room, a dreadful place where restless soles pace, where twenty minutes feels like twenty years waiting..." Michelle Evans | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/first-place-...

I’m so honored to have a story included on this fantastic nominations list 💚🦇

"Outside the frame a toppled tree, a burning telephone pole, our wish to call our father who is reading headlines drinking coffee, steam rising from the rim to his face, a pleasant heat." @readinstead.bsky.social | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/contextualiz...

excited to see submissions coming in for The ASP Bulletin!! we are open until Dec 25 so burn those holiday calories by umm, typing furiously on your keyboard and high fiving yourself for sharing your work 🥰 @alansquirepub theaspbulletin.com/submissions/

"I wanted the wolves to let me stay where I was, to let me keep what I had. If meat lay rotting in the yard, I’d step around it. If mold grew in the gutters, I’d breathe the spores." Megan Alpert | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/alecto-megan...

Thrilled to have a short story included in this new @alansquirepub.bsky.social anthology alongside some of my favorite writers. Many thanks to editor @writesloud.bsky.social for this powerhouse collection!

"you and me, together, in a house that is just small enough to hear us hold our breath. two tails, eight legs, and a pair of wet noses running around our knees - not a single child in sight." Ishanee Chanda | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/the-immigran...

Look what finally came! Thank you @writesloud.bsky.social and @alansquirepub.bsky.social!!

So excited that @alansquirepub.bsky.social has nominated my bitty story, ROLE MODEL, for inclusion in the Best Microfiction anthology! Congratulations to all my fellow nominees for Best Microfiction and the nominees for Best Small Fictions!

Woooohooo!! Thank you so much @alansquirepub.bsky.social and @writesloud.bsky.social! theaspbulletin.com/buttons/

Thank you @writesloud.bsky.social for giving this oddball of a story a chance, and good luck to all the nominees!

"If the chance comes I’ll take one fewer vice in life. Lungs smoked in relief & screen-splayed heart ghastly white beating interdimensional if seen through cardiologist eyes." @adrianf.bsky.social | @alansquirepub.bsky.social t.co/gCM8nA6izI

Congratulations to all of our nominees! @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social

Join us this Saturday!! writer.org/event/alread...

REMINDER! The ASP Bulletin opens for submissions tomorrow!! Our next issue will launch right before AWP! theaspbulletin.com/submissions/

The ASP Bulletin will open for general subs on Monday, November 27th! @irleywrites.bsky.social, @cameronecclarke.bsky.social, Liz Hazen, @nazbk.bsky.social, and Ashley Espinoza are eagerly awaiting your work!! theaspbulletin.com

The ASP Bulletin will open for general subs on Monday, November 27th! @irleywrites.bsky.social, @cameronecclarke.bsky.social, Liz Hazen, @nazbk.bsky.social, and Ashley Espinoza are eagerly awaiting your work!! theaspbulletin.com

Saturday's launch was a blast! Thank you to everyone who came! (And to our amazing authors!) Hope to see our DC friends on December 2nd! @lillydancyger.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @writesloud.bsky.social

I was so sad to miss the NYC reading & launch of the anthology ALREADY GONE: 40 STORIES OF RUNNING AWAY edited by the fabulous @writesloud.bsky.social @alansquirepub.bsky.social; I’m so honored to have a story included 🦇⚡️

Saturday's launch was a blast! Thank you to everyone who came! (And to our amazing authors!) Hope to see our DC friends on December 2nd! @lillydancyger.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @writesloud.bsky.social

weekly talk story about CLMP, @alansquirepub.bsky.social, @writesloud.bsky.social, and swamp pink www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

Going to AWP?? Save the date! We're hosting a reading on Wednesday night, Feb 7th, featuring @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @aureleo.bsky.social, @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social, and more!

I've waited all year for this day! 😭 Hope to hang with many of you on Saturday at The Gin Mill! ❤️

Today's the day! ALREADY GONE is here!! DC and NYC friends, we'll see you at our book launches! Everyone else, stay tuned for upcoming book tour events!

"I was six, in first grade curling cursive when Kennedy died and my father arrived at the schoolyard in our good used Ford, and said, oh honey, shook his head." @saycarey1.bsky.social | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/third-place-...

BEYOND excited to share this news with all the talented writers i know and invite you to submit work!! our new reading period is opening soon!

TOMORROW! 🔥 Featuring this stunner by @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social!

ALREADY GONE comes out on Tuesday!!! Featuring an amazing short story by @ambersparks.bsky.social! Pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/alre...

Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat | @alansquirepub.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/honorable-me...

We have MORE NEWS! Our new senior fiction editor is Cameron Cueva Clarke! Cameron is a proud Latino theatre artist, fiction writer, playwright, editor, and professional goofball. Cameron founded the off-Broadway NYC theatre company Company of Fools and is an MFA candidate at Randolph College.

We have NEWS!! Our new senior creative nonfiction editor is @irleywrites.bsky.social! Shirley Chan has been published in HAD, Longleaf Review, Paranoid Tree, Roi Fainéant, and other publications. She is currently writing a joyful memoir about growing up in a Chinese restaurant.

"If the chance comes I’ll take one fewer vice in life." Second Place Winner: @adrianf.bsky.social 's Emerald Echocardiogram theaspbulletin.com/second-place...

ASP editor @writesloud.bsky.social will discuss ALREADY GONE, and anthologies in general, at #AWP this year! Check out her panel on Thursday, February 8th. "Centering the Margin: Editors on Editing Anthologies"

Outside the frame a toppled tree, a burning telephone pole, our wish to call our father who is reading headlines drinking coffee, steam rising from the rim to his face, a pleasant heat. Contextualizing a Forest Fire Continually Burning by @readinstead.bsky.social theaspbulletin.com/contextualiz...

I got a story up in here!

ONE WEEK AWAY! Pre-orders are critical for books, y'all. And this collection is 🔥! bookshop.org/p/books/alre...

"you and me, together, in a house that is just small enough to hear us hold our breath" THE IMMIGRANT DREAM by Ishanee Chanda theaspbulletin.com/the-immigran...

Who's in NYC? Would love to see you in real life!! ❤️

ICYMI, check out my piece about body-shaming, a Louise Glück poem, and physical and emotional drowning. Thanks to @alansquirepub.bsky.social and @writesloud.bsky.social for giving it a home. 💙💙💙

Would love to see some of you there!!

In less than two weeks! NYC friends, please join us!! @lillydancyger.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social

This is how I know he loves me, in his own way—hidden in the dark of night so that I couldn’t see his emotions. @rachelwimer.bsky.social's A BODY OF WATER theaspbulletin.com/a-body-of-wa...